Washboard



E. c. KLAIBER April 1, 1930.

WASHBOARD' Filed June 21, 1929 INVENTOR EDWARD C2 KLAIBER ATTORNEYPatented Apr. 1, 1930 r I UNITEDSTATES PATENTOFFICE f EDWARD G. KLAIBER,F MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGN'OB" TO NATIONAL WASH- IBOARD COMPANY, OFCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA WASHBOARD Applicationfiled .Tune 21,

bar, a top bar and a soap pan, thereby doing away with the necessity ofseparately manufacturing these items and assembling them in awash-board.

A further advantage of this unitary structure of the two cross bars andthe soap pan is that leakage of water through or around the soap pan isavoided.

With the foregoing and certain other objects in view, which will appearlater inthe specification, my invention comprises the devices describedand claimed and the equivalents thereof.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of a wash-boardembodying my improvement.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1. 7

Fig. 3 is a perspective detail showing the integral soap pan and crossbars. I

Fig. 4 is an end view of the side rail shown in Fig. 2. As is clearlyshown in the drawings, a wash-board embodying my improvement comprises apair of spaced parallel side rails 40 l, 1 having longitudinal rabbets2, 2 in the inner opposite surfaces thereof. A rubbing plate 3 of usualconstruction is mounted between the side rails, its edges received inthe rabbets. The rubbing surface plate, as is customary in wash-boardsof this kind, is backed by a wooden panel 5 whose lateral marginal edgesare likewise received in the rabbets, as shown inFig. 2.

In applying my improved soap pan structure to a wash-board made up asabove described a board 4 of suitable width and length, whose thicknessis equal to the width of the rabbet is shaped on one face to present adepressed channel 6 that constitutes the soap pan, leaving top andbottom marginal ribs or raised strips that constitute the respective topcross bar 7 and the intermediate cross bar or soap rest 8. Such aboard,.cut to proper length as indicated in Fig. 3, is inserted in therabbets 2, 2 as in Figs. 1 and 2.

The upper edge 3 of the corrugated rubbing plate 3 abuts against thelower edge of the soap rest 8, being concealed and protected Serial No.372,722.

by it so that articles being rubbed can not catch 011 the said edge 3.

Leakage, resulting from shrinkage, andv seam-opening heretofore a commonsource of trouble in built-up wooden soap pans, is avoided in mystructure. Obviously the soap board or pan can not part from its upperor lower cross bars 7 and 8 to produce a crack,

which heretofore has been a frequent source of trouble in wash-boardshaving the soap channel or pan 6 and the top bar and soap rest bar madein separate pieces.

With the construction herein shown it is merely necessary to provide asuitably rabbeted board, Fig. 3, of any suitable length,

it being simply cut to the right length and inserted between the railsl, l, toprovide a complete soap pan, top bar and soap rest assembly.

A saving of labor and material by manu facturing these parts in onepiece is effected and considerable time is saved in assembling.

Having thus described my. invention, what I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is In combination, a pair of spaced side railslongitudinally rabbeted along their inner faces, a rubbing board whoseends are received in said rabbets, a soap pan whose ends are likewisereceived in said rabbets, the middle part of one of the faces of saidsoap pan l/Vith that arrangement it is feasible to omit the customaryshaped to present a thinned. panel and to present along its top andbottom edges respectively, a top bar and an intermediate soapsupportbar, the thickness of said bars being substantially equal to the widthof said rabbets, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

EDWARD G. KLAIBER.

